2.0 out of 5 stars
Another preachy conspiracy thriller from Burkett, 12 July 2011
This review is from: THOR CONSPIRACY PB (Paperback)
This standalone followup to Burkett's "
The Illuminati" is another political conspiracy thriller. A government intern finds some old secret documents about a nuclear missile project, "THOR" which went wrong in the 1960s and was then classified. People involved died mysteriously. Now, disgruntled governemnt worker Dale Crawford gets his hands on the secret documents and is pursued by government agents who seem to want to silence him by any means necessary.
The story is set in a future America that is similar to the Soviet Union or the America in "
Atlas Shrugged". Government controls everything, there's no freedom of speech, people are starving, there are riots in the streets and government employs street gangs to sell drugs and "keep order". All of this is somehow because of fanatic environmentalists. The politics is very heavy handed. At least in the first half of the book there's hardly a page where there's not some rant against goverment, environmentalists, or liberals. Like in "Illuminati" Burkett takes every opportunity to make sure the reader understands his political opinions and it gets preachy pretty quickly. This is the book's major flaw and it detracts much enjoyment from reading. For the most part, the plotting is decent (except for a way-too-long and detailed flashback sequence in the last third of the book and some subplot about Koreans that had almost nothing to do with the main plot) but the premise is ridiculous and the characters are one-dimensional.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
It was good and intrigueing, 26 Aug 1999
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I liked because it had and you also didn't know what was going to happen next. The bigges, and only, problem was it was kind to hard to keep up with but otherwise it was well written and truthful and a great book
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Book of Fiction?!?!?, 18 May 1999
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I really enjoyed this book and once I started, I found it hard to put it down. Burkett sounds an alarm to all that will hear. He shows us how laws that are made supposedly for our own good, can also be used against us. Burkett challenges each of us to really think long and hard before we so casually give away our rights and freedoms. Although this book is fiction, it has an erie resemblance to actual current events.
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